Current Affairs Quiz - April 2022

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The Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC is set to be admitted as the seventh member of the East African Community (EAC).
In the Extraordinary Heads of State Summit, DR Congo will be formally received in a virtual session. The DRC will gain access to the two main ports in the region-Mombasa and Dar es Salaam, also gaining trade, political and security cooperation. Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda are the other members.

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The Punjab Mandi Board has started sending ‘digital form J’ to the farmers from this Rabi procurement season
‘J form’ is the sale receipt of a farmer’s agricultural produce in mandis (grain market). These forms were earlier issued manually by the Commission agents. This move aims to bring transparency as well as empowering farmers and make Punjab the first state in the country to provide digitised form J in real time.

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Gangaur Festival is predominantly celebrated in the state of Rajasthan. Rajasthan Tourism Department organised the festival after two years gap due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The festival commenced on April 3 and continues for 18 days. The Tourism Department of the state has made special arrangements to make the foreign tourists aware of the culture of the state.

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As per the provisions of National Education Policy-2020, the University Grants Commission(UGC) has developed a draft curricular framework and credit system for Four Years’ Undergraduate Programme (FYUGP).
The framework aims to equip students in one or more subject areas.  The draft framework has been placed in public domain for seeking suggestions from stakeholders.

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The Haryana Vidhan Sabha has passed a resolution seeking completion of the Sutlej Yamuna Link Canal (SYL) Canal.
There has been a long-pending dispute of sharing of river waters between Haryana and Punjab. To counter the resolution passed by Punjab Vidhan Sabha staking a claim on Chandigarh, Haryana Assembly unanimously passed a resolution. It demanded that the central government should not take any steps that would disturb the existing balance between the two states.

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Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath launched the state-wide ‘School Chalo Abhiyan’ from district Shravast.
The campaign of the state government aims to achieve 100 percent enrolment in primary and upper primary schools. The state government has also asked MLAs to adopt a school for the development of schools.

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In a recent report, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has appreciated the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojana.
It highlighted that the program provided insurance to the poor and prevented an increase in the prevalence of extreme poverty in the country. Without any food subsidies, extreme poverty in the pandemic would have increased by 1.05 per cent.

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Union Bank of India recently launched its super-app named UnionNXT and digital transformation project SMBHAV.
The project has been launched with an investment outlay of around Rs 1,000 crore for the financial year 2022-23 (FY23). A banking super-app combines several services, such as payments, online shopping, bill payments, recharges, investment, loans, and fund transfer, on a single platform.

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World Bank and Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) approved a loan of Rs 7500 Cr for the Gujarat government’s Mission School of Excellence project.
Under the Mission School of Excellence project, the state government will spend Rs 10,000 crore in the next five years, to be spent on building new classrooms, smart classrooms, new computer labs and tinkering labs in government and grant-in-aid schools across the state.

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‘Sarhul Festival’ is the most popular tribal celebration across the state of Jharkhand region. It denotes the beginning of the New Year.
This vibrant festival is celebrated at the beginning of spring every year. This year, it fell on April 4. It is usually celebrated by the tribal communities of the local Sarna religion, especially by the Munda, Ho, and Oraon tribes.